Jeremy Xuan
Backend Lead Engineer at Canva
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Xuan is a Backend Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, data-driven systems and currently leading backend efforts at Canva from Greater Sydney. He combines deep expertise in Scala and Java with production experience in Akka, Play Framework, Kafka, Spark and databases like Cassandra, MongoDB and ElasticSearch to deliver real-time detection, indexing and analytics pipelines. Jeremy co-founded Scrapeo, a high-performance classified-ads search engine, demonstrating an entrepreneurial knack for search algorithms and product-focused engineering. His background spans scientific and infrastructure projects at CERN and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he shipped ontology stores, bioinformatics tooling and robust CI/CD automation. Comfortable across cloud-native deployments (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes) and big-data stacks, he is keen to expand into machine learning and larger-scale data platforms. A pragmatic systems thinker, he often bridges research-grade tooling and production constraints to turn complex signals into actionable, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
French, English, German, Vietnamese
Github Skills (88)
web-application10
ontology10
ontologies10
semantic-similarity10
django10
neo4j10
cypher10
java10
monarchinitiative10
api9
database9
graph-database9
python9
owl9
php9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
monarch-initiative/monarch-mme
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 28 pushes, 17 comments in 1 year 4 months
exchangematchmaker
berkeleybop/golr-schema
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Utility to generate a schema.xml from a yaml config file.
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
xmlconfig-filexml-schemaconfig-yamlconfig
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